Windows Phone App Review: iClone

The iClone app for your Windows Phone is an interesting novelty app. iClone pulls up a fake iPhone interface on your Windows Phone that doesn't look bad and has a little functionality to help sell things.

When you first launch iClone you'll be presented with the iPhone lock screen and from there you get the traditional iPhone layout with thirteen icons that include:

Swiping to the left pulls up the search screen and swiping to the right pulls up six more icons for a BMI (body mass index) app, a weight tracking app, a vibration app, a chess game, a rather nasty cowboy dueling app and link to the developer's Facebook page.

Along the bottom of the screen you have tiles to launch an iPhone designed dialer, your email, web browser and fake iPod player. iClone ran smoothly but the iPod player was a little shaky at times. Songs would mysteriously start playing again at random after you hit the pause button.

It's really a nice app but we couldn't help but ask why would you want to fool your friends into thinking you had iOS running on your Windows Phone. Especially when you have such a great OS to begin with.

Not wanting to read too much into things we took iClone for what it is, a well presented novelty app for your Windows Phone. I wonder how many "Is that the new iPhone?" type questions you'd get running iClone the next time you visit your local AT&T store?

iClone is running $.99 and you can grab it here at the Windows Phone Marketplace.

This stupid app why would you want this. For me iPhone looks like a dead interface you always have to tap an app to see what's going on. With WP it's alive and always letting one know what's going on with just a glance.

Hey i wanna find out how to get gamefly to make an app like start a petition does anyone know what i have to do to go about it? please inbox me with some info i think windows phone should have an app considering gaming is supposed to be one of its main selling points :P

I agree, but we should send gamefly requests for a wp7 app just like we're doing for Chase(app slated for release in July on wp7) and other banking institutions. Remember MS can't make them do it alone, we have to petition as well.

all i know is if wp7 is supposed to be gaming friendly for someone who uses gamefly its a needed app hulu is cool and all but i can live without it id rather have apps that provide some sort of service :O ooh IMHO before you guys gang up on me. :p

To me, my phone is entertainment quick and easy on the go. I can still log into gamefly online via web browser, but as for Hulu I can't. Hulu is highly requested, and would make alot of window phone customers happy, this is the first time I heard a request for gamefly.

wow, I am not sure what to say. The reason I sold my iPhone 4, and upgraded to a Lumia 900, is because I was tired of the static icon field that is iOS on iPhone. My Lumia 900 gives me a simple, fresh interface that is always brimming with glanceable info. I still have to check every day and make sure that this OS actually came from Microsoft. I would never load this pile of garbage, even for free.

Whoever developed this should be ashamed of themselves. What a disgraceful app, especially for PAY. Why would anyone who'd made the UPGRADE to Windows Phone's fantastic UI want to hobble their devices by switching back to a UI that's fundamentally stuck in an interface paradigm from 30+ years ago?
I made the switch from iOS to WP7 a year and a half ago, and there's ZERO chance I'd make the trek back. No thank you, stale, non-innovative UI.

I agree with you. Some obviously think this app has no place but it looks like it was well done and the developer should get credit for that. I wouldn't want to develop for WP anymore if this was the feedback I recieved from WP fans over a simple app that looks like an iPhone.

Patent trolling activated!! This to me is a lame use of developer skills (I guess an iPhone dev) why oh why would you make an app to make your phone look like another phone and especially one that is sooooo played out.

There would only be a handful of ways I might ever use this "type" of app (note not this app):
1. If I was somehow forced to use an iPhone or Android Phone I would use the I'm a WP7 emulator :)
2. If I was forced to at gunpoint (even then I might resist)
3. If you paid me some cash (not pennies)
4. In another life

Looks pretty cool, and $.99 is really cheap compare to other apps on the marketplace. I don't understand why so many people are hating on the app and the developer. It's cool and some people will like it. That's what an app market is about, there should be all types of apps for everyone's liking.

Calm down guys. It's just for fun! There's a smilar app called iFun in the marketplace already. It's free. I used it once to pull a prank on a friend of mine who is all Apple. Got a good laugh out of it.

What a waste of time. The developer should have spent the time wasted on this crap creating an actual app that's needed on windows phone OS.
99.99% of the people who love windows phone OS are running from that boring ass Apple UI.

These comments are awful. The developer seems to have made a perfectly fine app and deserves credit for that. If you don't want a prank iOS app that's fine but maybe some people do. I doubt most people who own a Windows Phone at this point will be downloading this app because they wish they were using iOS instead. Has anyone even thought that maybe this could be used to show people why Windows Phone is better?

The problem with your argument is that if we are trying to convince an iPhone user why their static wall of apps is so last decade then we are going to compare our phone side by side with their phone. No need for a useless .99¢ app.

Calm down guys, it's just an app. If you don't want it, don't download it.
On another note, I donwloaded the iFun app just before the iPhone 4S release and I told my friend I got the new iPhone ahead of time. Needless to say he freaked out a bit (until he got a closer look and realised I was pulling his leg).

This application should be withdrawn from the marketplace because it is an insult to the great METROUI interface that is different from all others and is more pleasant for us users happy and loyal users of WP7

Can we get some more interesting games such as Temple Run and Words with Friends. Windows phone needs a revolutionary app that people would die for such as angry birds. The key is to find an already made creation and improve on it if you cannot think of your own.

I will consider this. Could fool some of the cheerleading freshers into thinking I have an iPhone (Bradford uni is full of iPhone users). Unfortunately all the senior cheerleaders know it's a WP and may spoil my fun. They also all think WP is rubbish and taunt me for "having a rubbish phone"

Hey guys, I found this review through the Marketplace decription of iClone and I really think you should make an update on this. The app has a lot more to offer now, especially the recently added Android clone is just impressive! It's a perfect example for what awesome things can be done with Silverlight and that there is still some more potential in our Windows Phone 7.x devices!